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filling of methyl butyral in the or percolator and brew in the ordinary wa safety glass of your car. Re­ The coffee briquet is the first of a long h: cently it came back from the war of compressed and dehydrated foods to cor to be used in waterproofing home from the battle fronts. They will sa many kinds of cloth, and to much shelf space in your kitchen and i make artificial leather and wa­ sure that you get absolute freshness. O: ter-resistant paper. Now it is feature is that the measuring is done f about to go off on its own hook you at the factory. without benefit of any textile fabric at all, turning out the Bicycling with Power lightest and most convenient raincoats the world has ever seen. You are going to have a brand-new lig Not counting buckles and but­ vehicle to get you around the count: tons (which can be featherweight, Neither bicycle nor motorcycle, it will tal too), a butyral raincoat will weigh the place of both. Light enough to ped no more than seven ounces and if you want the exercise, it will be rugg< can be folded to the size of enough to take you over the toughest hil an ordinary tobacco pouch—so and against the strongest winds. small that you can stuff it in a Known to the Army as the "Servi-cycle side pocket Uke a handkerchief, this gasoline-powered two-wheeler was usf or carry it in your purse. by paratroopers and dispatch riders on tl The material can be made in fighting fronts. Its success is partly due to tl any color or thickness and orna­ new lightweight engines that have at last be< mentally embossed to resemble made reliable, though very small. But i E«5«'' Unen, if desired. It can be per­ principal secret is a newly developed V-be forated for vetitilation without built around a core of flexible steel cabl tearing. which in its turn is a product of airplane a) Butyral film will also make a plications in the war. This belt cannot brea startling new kind of ladies' or stretch, but it is elastic enough to tal glove—so thin and sheer that up the jerks of the engine shaft and stc they can be cleaned simply by vibration. This allows a tiny high-speed ei KBO^ putting them on and washing gine and a frame of about half the weigl TjOt^O your hands. of the conventional motorcycle. OB«R^ Steel-cored belts are proving so successfi ^oo Now You Can Get. in all sorts of power applications that yo BAVM> o- probably will see them on ordinary bicycle ... A small metal container, too. The greasy, troublesome chain filled with pellets of "activated doomed. carbon," for removing the odors from your refrigerator. The de­ Please Give Us Your Address This Gasoline Won't Bum pump. Strangest feature is the fact that it vice is flat, about the size of a folded news­ will explode in a plane's tanks when hit by paper, and can be placed in any convenient As reconversion begins, and the endles A new kind of high-test gasoline that won't an incendiary bullet, since vaporizing is done position in the icebox. It needs no attention variety of new products appears on the mai explode or even burn till it is inside the en­ entirely by heat. Standard, 100-octane gas except that it must be removed when defrost­ ket, our readers write to us more and mon gine is a strange development just getting often will not burn when hit by bullets be­ ing. It will take out all odors—-onions, bana­ asking for definite information: Who make under way in the petroleum laboratories for­ cause it is so volatile that the tanks' spaces nas, cauliflower—and store them away inside it? Who sells it? Is it something I ought t merly devoted exclusively to war. Sluggish are filled with a mixture too rich to ignite. the carbon grains. Once every six months you have? as kerosene, the new gas packs the same Noninflammable gasoline has highly im­ freshen up the absorber by baking it in a hot YOUR LIFE TOMORROW takes prid power as the 100-octane fuel used in war- portant work to do in your future airplane oven for a few minutes. Activated carbon, in helping its readers get the low-down o planes. But a cupful of it will put out a lighted travel. Commercial airliners can easily be made from the husks of coconuts, will take future products and often makes connection match or a cigarette. converted to using it in their engines, and it up thousands of times its own volume of for them that may mean a job or a profltabl An extraordinary paradox in high-power can be carried in large quantities with no odorous gases and will not wear out for sev­ business venture. But too frequently we can fuels, the new gasoline was worked out some more danger of fire than so much kerosene. eral years. answer you at all because you fail to give u thirteen years ago for the Navy, then dropped . Coffee, ground while perfectly fresh, your address! when it was foimd that it had no value in Raincoats Without Cloth then compressed into small blocks and pack­ So, when you write for information, b war. It does not vaporize fast enough to be aged in Cellophane. A single briquet will sure to put that address at the head of you used in standard carburetors and must be A familiar plastic, which you have used make three cups of coffee. You merely break letter—not on' the envelope only, but on th injected directly into the engine by a special for years but have never seen, is the thin it up in your fingers and drop it into the pot letter itself. **? from his dancing so the curtain closes in on mand and Mr. Blues fears it will break her have all his strength. He inflicts most of m Big Boy Blues him and the first act for good and nearly heart if she learns the truth." injuries with a left hook." everyone in the audience moves out into the "Colonel," Captain Caswell says, "I dis­ "Well, Willie," I say, "it shows you hov Continued fiom pag« 13 lobby for the intermission to smoke and gas tinctly hear Big Boy yell when he gets up Colonel Coogan is deceived by Big Boy am and all they are gassing about is Little Boy's from his seat and our experience with him in Captain Caswell is right all the time. I sup Little Boy Blues stands there on the stage dancing. Then I see Captain Caswell talking the past is that he always prefaces his acts pose Big Boy's fury over Little Boy being ii panting as if he just finishes a fast hundred to Rosie Flynn in a corner of the lobby and of violence by yelling." Gee Eyes flares up anew when he has timi yards and taking bows with one hand on his I get close enough to hear the captain say: "Yes," Colonel Coogan says, "he yells all to think about it and no doubt he assault stomach and also perspiring no little and the "Well, Rosie," he says, "you certainly do right, but so do I and what we are both you as a representative of the show." audience applauds with even greater vigor the community a service by requesting police yelling is bravo." . "Oh, no," Willie says. "Big Boy is still al than before and at this moment I observe protection here tonight. If it is not for your At this point I hear a slight gasp behind pleasured up over Little Boy's performance Big Boy Blues jump up from his seat down warning and my skill with a jack we will me and on looking around I observe that and what is more he and Little Boy an( front. have serious trouble although to tell you the Rosie Flynn slumps to the floor in a dead Rosie Flynn are enjoying a happy and ver I notice his mouth is wide open so I judge truth we have enough already with the guy faint consequently there is more excitement loving family reunion but Big Boy gets tc he is yelling something and thinks I to myself we commandeer the seat from behind Big during which I take my departure without brooding about the ticket speculator whi well, here it comes, although there is too Boy. I only hope and trust that he does not even waiting for the second act as my legs are calls him up: and tells him of Little Boy'; much noise for me to hear what he is yelling have as much influence as he claims and very tired from the standing room only. presence in the show and hustles him inti about, and besides at almost the same instant anyway he can have the seat now." buying a ticket for a hundred dollars whicl he jumps up a guy in the seat directly behind Then Colonel Coogan comes into the AM again sitting in Mindy's restaurant is about a ninety-five dollar premium." him jumps up too and practically similita- lobby still stating in a loud voice that the I along about 3 o'clock in the A.M. still rest­ "I see," I say. "You are the speculator neously with Big Boy's mouth opening a jacking of Big Boy is a scandalous matter ing my legs when who comes in but West Side of course?" blackjack drops on his sconce and Big Boy and that somebody will hear from the War Willie and I am most distressed to note that "Well," Willie says, "I am stuck with < sinks back quietly in his seat.

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